Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-11-16-Speech-4-106"

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lpv:document identification number	"en.20001116.5.4-106"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Bordes, Cauquil and Laguiller (GUE/NGL )2
lpv:translated text	". We abstained on this report, even the amended version. The main reason we did not vote against it is because its author set out a few good intentions. Unfortunately, however, good intentions do not make a policy, even one of condemnation. The official count is 65 million poor in Europe, or 18% of the population. That means that a considerable proportion of the working class of one of the richest regions in the world is reduced to poverty. This figure of 65 million poor is not the effect of some misfortune that has come out of the blue; it is the result of the greed of a privileged capitalist class intent on boosting company profits and stock exchange rates, which therefore makes people redundant, closes down factories, reducing 15 million women and men to unemployment, and puts such pressure on all wages that the lowest wages are not enough to live on. The report proposes a budget of EUR 100 million over five years to combat poverty. That comes to one and a half euros for every poor European. Even as a handout that would be derisory, quite apart from the fact that the issue of poverty does not call for charity. We realise that no report and no vote, even by the European Parliament, can alter this situation. Yet the report could at least have put the blame at the door of those responsible. In any case, though we did not vote against the report, we did not feel able to vote in favour of it either, because not only are its practical proposals inadequate but, alas, it conceals rather than combats the actual situation, namely the exploitation that is the real cause of poverty among the working classes."@en1

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